Galaxy Ranger

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Galaxy Ranger

Post by Mobsie » Sun Sep 08, 2013 8:33 am

Today i write about our next project. The name is "Galaxy Ranger" I am a VIC-20 Fan from my 12 year to now. And i love "Laser Zone" from Jeff Minter, one of the best VIC-20 programmer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeCSwR-_OSw

On the C-64 it looks like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J_eVAlZ418

Soon we have an article in an german Retro Magazin, they write about the CreatiVision and our activity. So is time to write about "Galaxy Ranger"

So for me is clear to bring this to our lovely CreatiVison. Our CreatiVision Head (Luca) make the Design and Graphics. Here for you some Ideas and first view.
I always need to develop more then one, so i work on "ColorMaze" and now on "Galaxy Ranger".

The Idea (from Luca) is to make 4-5 screens to settle the game screens.

Vertical cannon always moves on a crane/rocket launch pad. We can make
different graphics for the crane, depending on the setting.

And we have 2 player mode to play together.

Stage 1: earth: horizontal cannon is a tank that moves on a road. Blue sky
with clouds.

Stage 2: Moon: horizontal cannon moves on the Moon ground. Craters
everywhere, stars on the background.

Stage 3: Mars: moves on Mars ground. The "Mars Face" and the "Mars Pyramids"
on the horizon :-) stars on the background.

Stage 4: Sun: of course you can't land there, so we can use a "double crate"
for both horizontal and vertical. The sun would be on the background.

First View:
galaxyranger1.jpg
galaxyranger2.jpg
I hope you will like it, we do our best.
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Re: Galaxy Ranger

Post by TBCTBC » Sun Sep 08, 2013 9:34 pm

Looks very nice!
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Re: Galaxy Ranger

Post by carlsson » Mon Sep 09, 2013 11:19 am

Yes, looks very promising!

By the way, I can't recall if you already have your own music routines but if you don't, feel free to reuse my routines. If it seems hard to compose music fitting the routine, I could help out with that as well.
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Re: Galaxy Ranger

Post by Mobsie » Mon Sep 09, 2013 1:08 pm

i would like to use your music routines, my own is not finish. I have done routines for sound effect but is hard to create them.
Your music demos here in the forum are perfect!
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Re: Galaxy Ranger

Post by mr_bogus » Mon Sep 09, 2013 2:26 pm

Looks great, I'm excited to see the project's progress :)
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Re: Galaxy Ranger

Post by MADrigal » Wed Sep 11, 2013 8:42 am

I had fun in drawing the graphics, sadly I'm very busy with my own business these days, hence I have very very limited spare time to devote to the Galaxy Ranger project.
Will do more in the future, hopefully by the end of October.
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Re: Galaxy Ranger

Post by Mobsie » Wed Sep 11, 2013 10:03 am

Thats okay,
this give me time to do my job :D
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Re: Galaxy Ranger

Post by Mobsie » Tue Oct 01, 2013 4:30 pm

we have some on the screen. http://youtu.be/RqqD_HM3cLk
You see the demo-screen like all CreatiVision games, then the Select Screen. I switch between 1 and 2 Player. Then i start the game and move the ships.
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Re: Galaxy Ranger

Post by carlsson » Wed Oct 02, 2013 7:45 am

Looking good!

Dunno if you need more inspiration, but Richard Bayliss the other year made a tribute to Lazer Zone in his game Sheepoid for the C64, also available in an improved version Sheepoid DX. However I suppose we should reserve those sheeps, goats, llamas, camels and other furry animals for later games where they rather belong, if anyone is up for some true Jeff Minter remakes.
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Re: Galaxy Ranger

Post by Mobsie » Wed Oct 02, 2013 10:35 am

Oh yes Jeff Minter are one Master i never forgot like Tom Griner on the VC-20.
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